Creative Loafing’s Got Claws

Yesterday was the first day in April, a day when people who aren’t used to being funny give it a swing anyway, sometimes with less than desirable results. If you are used to being funny all year, you can take April Fools’ day off and just do something silly for fun.

If you run a print media outlet and you’re not used to being funny, there are two obvious jokes you can employ on April 1. The most obvious joke is to scare your readers by claiming to have been purchased by a big distasteful corporation of some kind. In the Loaf’s case, that would hit a bit too close to home, because they already were.

Instead, they went with obvious joke number two: “we’re erecting a paywall.” Now, to be fair, this isn’t that bad a joke, given that AJC beats their please-go-behind-our-paywall drum every day with even more glee than they report overnight deaths, but CL went a step farther. They let us know what they really think about AccessAtlanta.

We’re no strangers to lapses in judgement around here, but the longer a lapse goes the less excusable it is. Anyone who has ever worked in or around home construction of any kind knows it takes a long time. You don’t hit the booze hard on Friday happy hour and wake up Saturday morning in an Maison D’Oopsie.

That’s going to be a pretty sweet episode of MTV Cribs: “and this is where the magic happens.”

The Banana on GPB

It was awfully kind of Georgia Public Broadcasting to ask our founder, James Hodgson — who is absolutely not writing about himself in the third person right now — to appear on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s news show On The Story to talk about humor in Atlanta.

Editor In Chief, Founder, and Admiral of Smugness at The Atlanta Banana, Jim Hodgson has an ass for news. Follow him on twitter at @jimhodgson
He is the author of the hilarious Science Fiction novel Dangerous Dan, available now on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback.